BOOK REVIEW: The Color Purple

The Color Purple

 --Alice Walker

The story of the two important characters Celie and Nettie, the African-American sisters and their struggle of being born in uneducated and abusive family and then getting married and suffering more abuse than earlier. Its the belief of Celia that GOD reads her letters. So the narrative of the book is in the form of her letters to GOD. The sisters after being married do not know about each others whereabouts and consider the other being no more. But later on come to know about each other only to hope that one day their struggle will end and they'll meet each other and live together. Now they write to each other and they write to GOD. 

The characters of the story Celie, Nettie, Mister, Harpo, Sophia, Shug Avery all represent  different personalities of resilience, hope, oppressiveness, brutality, courageous, fierce all knit well by Alice Walker. 

The journey of Celie from oppression to freedom and with the touch of African accent is worth reading.

BOOK REVIEW: Postscript

Postscript

- By Cecelia Ahern

Postscript by Cecelia Ahern is about Holly, the protagonist of the story who is a part a club; P.S. I Love You Club whose members are people with terminal illness who wish to write letters for their loved ones. She lost her husband, Gerry due to terminal illness and isn't able to get over it for years together. Gerry has written ten letters for her during his final days. She reads the letters after his death. She relives 'their life' through the letters. The letters are his way to be in her life forever.  

Ciara, Holly's sister, wants Holly to share this in a podcast and a group of people suffering with terminal illnesses listen to the podcast and are touched with the feeling of writing letters for their loved ones. They want Holly to help them do this. They want her to help them to live in the memories of their loved ones after they are gone. Initially Holly is very reluctant to do this as all of this may cause her to go through the trauma of Gerry's death again. But after a lot of thinking she agrees to do it. She helps Paul, Bert, Ginika to write their letters. Her journey with each of them during their last days and being there for them is an emotional read. 

Members of the club pass away one after the other due to illness and that's when Holly realises that this has been a remarkable journey and that helping someone to write letters and be memorable, gives her a feeling of being worth for someone and wishes to continue doing it. 

Cecelia Ahern has done a wonderful job with the characters, choice of words, expressions and the story. 

P. S.: Must read for fiction lovers.